Overview —“ The Formation of Damnation, the latest album released by Testament is the first new material released by the band since The Gathering, released nine years previous. This album also marks Alex Skolnick’s return to the band, one huge reason why the guitar riffs on this album are …

Have A Cigar is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their album Wish You Were Here. The song opens up in a fashion which is interesting to describe. Though I can hear experimental influences throughout the instrumental sections of the opening of this track, they aren’t the …

Sledding With Tigers/Kids Split is a split release from Sledding With Tigers and KIDS put out in 2011. Just as a note, I will be focusing this review strictly on the four of eight tracks that Sledding With Tigers contributed to the record. The biggest issue with their songs …

Mercyful Fate is a medley which Metallica chose to include on their cover record, Garage, Inc. and is obviously a medley of songs from the band Mercyful Fate. For those of you who know and have heard Mercyful Fate you’ll obviously be able to point them out just by …

This film is directed by Imtiyaz Ali and music has been composed by preetam the cast includes Shahid Kapur and Kareena Kapur in the leads. This album has a youth appeal and most of the songs are young, peppy and energetic mauja he mauja is sung by mika singh …

Country music performing artists have no shortage of songs that move people by making them take a look at how they live their own lives, and the song ‘The Little Girl’ by John Michael Montgomery is no exception.
This sad tale tells the story of a little girl, neglected by …

Volunteers is the title track of an album released by Jefferson Airplane. The song starts off with a distorted rhythm by itself but is soon joined by drums, a lead guitar, bass, and a piano as well, so as you can imagine the sound is quite full. The vocals …

Burnt Ice is a song by Megadeth which appears on their album United Abominations. The track starts off with an extremely quick guitar solo and a pounding rhythm behind this solo. The solo isn’t that great but I guess it’s an alright way to start off the song. Mustaine …

“Frogs” is the 11th song on the Alice In Chains Unplugged live album. “Frogs” appeared on Alice In Chains self titled album, but I never really could get into the studio version of it therefore I never really paid it any mind. However the live acoustic and unplugged version …

I first saw this band in Jan 05 at my university and thought they were amazing. This is their debut album and it is one of the albums of the year and is sure to recieve nominations come awards time. The album includes classic tracks such as …

The height of jazz fusion was very obvious during the 70`s and 80`s. It still remains until the 90`s up to the present but may be quietly in other parts of the world where it is very much appreciated.
MTV has gotten control of the music business through media …

Looking for a new place to practice with my band I jumped into Google (as usual). A place called the FuzzBox came up and took a look into their website. Not much there on the site but decided to go down and look anyway. It’s actually only five minuets …

I remember how dissatisfied with this album I was after I bought it. It was a rather critical point then. I had bought the KMFDM album called Attak, released in 2002, and I liked it a lot. And then I saw this CD in the shop. And I thought: …

This song is what makes me feel awake during at night. Whenever I hear it, it makes me dance because of the upbeat and clubby tunes. It looks like R&B balladeer Usher is shifting to pop with this song. He teamed up with Pittbull. The song is about a …

Alice in Chains rose to super stardom in the early 90’s while the “grunge” scene was in full effect.They remain one of my most cherished bands even to this day.Jar Of Flies was released on January 24, 1994.The studio EP revealed the depth of the band and won them …

Nothing Like This is the newest CD in Rascal Flatts’ already huge discography. It has already sold thousands of copies. I was the last of my fellow Flatts fans to get it.
The wait was well worth it. The lead track, “Why Wait” sums up what I would say …

Rihanna has come into the musical industry with quite a bang. And although she hasn’t been that instantly famous as some superstars had been, right fro the start, she has been really working hard to get to the top. From her first album, she was known to a few …

Smells Like Children is a 1995 remix ep of Portrait of an American family, Marilyn Manson wasn’t happy with the results of Portrait of an American Family, this ep is the end result. This album not only has remixes of the previous album, it has several covers including the …

The Cranberries was one of the most famous rock bands of the 90’s. On 1999 they released “Promises” as a single of their “Bury the Hatchet” album. That song was a major hit and is my favorite Cranberries song and one of the best songs from the 90’s.
The song …

I have recently become more of a fan of rap and hip hop music than I used to be when I first became obsessed with music. I have really begun to appreciate what a lot of rap artists are doing with their music these days because it sounds a …

It is my dream to travel around the world and if someone asks me what CD I will bring when I travel, I will answer : Jason Mraz’s third album - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things
Yup, in this new album, Jason Mraz really brings a travel spirit, …

Sometimes in life we have conflict with those we never dreamed that we would. They are not nice times but we strive to get through them and after a turbulent 12 months I listened to this song and it made so much sense to me.
With the performer being male …

Sabbra Cadabra is a cover performed and recorded by Metallica for their record Garage, Inc. If you couldn’t guess from the name the song is originally done by Black Sabbath which is a version that I’m familiar with as well. The main difference that I hear throughout the intro …

I’m not totally a fan of girl groups but something about this song caught my attention. I was originally browsing in Instagram when one of my friends posted a song that what I thought to be original. It had a caption “Secret Love Song” and I listened to it, …

Rudimentary Peni released “Archaic” EP as their third installment to a string of EP’s released after “Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric”. These EP’s seemed to get better with each one, and this one keeps the streak alive. One of RP’s best records to date, the “Archaic” EP packs a hard …

Don’t Leave Me Now is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their concept record, The Wall. I don’t really want to go into much explanation about the story which goes on with this song since it’s useless to explain without the entire context of The Wall. The …

Baby You’re A Rich Man is a song by The Beatles which appears on their most psychedelic work, Magical Mystery Tour. I chose to include that this is their most psychedelic work because it helps me in describing the overall sound of the track. For some reason this used …

This UK Band, singing their hit single titled, Back Here is one of the best songs ever sung by this band. And this band is none other than BBMak. I don’t know whether the BB and the Mak should be close or separated, but that’s more or less …

Overall, Reba McEntire: So Good Together CD is pretty good. It made great background music for me as I did things around the house. Sometimes I sang along and sometimes it made me stop and listen, while at other times, it was just music filling the air.
The …

“Speechless” by Lady Gaga is probably one of my favorite songs by her for the simple fact it justifies her fame more than anything else she’s recorded. Don’t get me wrong. I love pretty much all her songs but I think Speechless shows off how good her voice …

Overview —“ Know Your Enemy, the first single and music video released by Green Day for their latest record 21st Century Breakdown features simple parts and structure yet still very catchy music in the song. I’ll admit that when I first heard Know Your Enemy, I really didn’t think …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: There’s Got To Be A Way
Album: Mariah Carey
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“There’s Got To Be A Way” is the fifth and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s first self-titled album, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Vision of Love”, “Love Takes …

Sorry Bro is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their 2011 release Knife Man. Opening up with a quick rhythm which focuses on a guitar and the drums, the vocals enter the mix pretty quickly with the first verse of the song which returns the band …

Sometimes, the best things are found in the strangest of places. From the midst of the often incredibly angsty underground music scene comes a completely unexpected ray of sunshine in the form of a band with a typically ironic name — Cheap Seats.
The band at first glance is rather …

R. Kelly
“I Can’t Sleep Baby (If I)”
R. Kelly
Jive/Zomba Recordings
“I Can’t Sleep Baby (If I)” is the fourth and final single and music video from the self-titled album, “R. Kelly”, following “You Remind Me of Something”, “Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)”, and “Thank God It’s Friday”. This is not …

With some trepidation - after all, I had heard BAD things about her latest release - I purchased My December, Kelly Clarkson’s third album.
I’m glad I did.
True, My December is not a lighthearted, American Idol type offering, quite the contrary. It is a hard driving, “woman …

As a Prince lover, I am one of (3) people that I know who has actually seen the movie “Graffiti Bridge“. Mentioning any details of the movie would be direct blasphemy. However, because I am a Prince lover, I did purchase the soundtrack of the same …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 11″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
We’ve had a somewhat successful and mostly borderline interesting ten chapters so far in this series. And so begins Chapter 11 of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” series. We have a protagonist, his brother in law, a policeman, his …

Trace Adkins looks like a rough and tumble kind of guy and that’s exactly what you expect when you hear his music. Honkytonk Badonkadonk is a great song and it is all based around a woman and her rear end. Men love rear ends and Trace took the cue …

Before Franz Ferdinand’s debut self-titled album released in 2004, Scotland has only Rod Stewart, Shirley Manson and Annie Lennox, who each of them has something different than just singing. Image which was built by Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Nick McCarthy and Paul Thomson, was like white boy disco, a …

Don’t take Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D too seriously. If not, you will not like the music at all. Instead, if you just listen for pleasure, doing some things while listening and putting on this CD music while the guests are in your home for a birthday party …

The Holiday Collection - Volume III CD is a collection of Christmas music that was sold to benefit the City of Hope. I don’t honestly remember how I got a hold of this because I don’t have the first two volumes. Volume 3 is very nice though. …

I was very impressed by this album when I heard it. It is a very interesting record indeed. It is very good that the band included so many new songs which have rather different sounds from each other. The previous album, Bloodflowers, released in 2000, was very good. I …

La Rapet is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their debut record Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Kicking off with the vocals right away, the first thing I notice is that better production could’ve certainly helped this song because the vocals are fairly hard to make …

This is one of those bitter sweet songs that you just can’t help but fall in love with. Hince the title- the songs about not being able to have the one you love, but stil loving and thinking about them constantly . . . and only hope for them …

50 cent is a Rap star who is signed to Eminem and Dr. Dre on Aftermath Records and he has given the world such hits as ‘Wanksta’, ‘P.I.M.P.’ and �Heat�. I have been a 50 cent fan since 1997 and so when he signed his record deal I …

At the time when I first listened to this record I was not impressed by it. The problem there was that by then I had already been rather closely familiar with the Nine Inch Nails albums The Downward Spiral and The Fragile. And compared to those albums, this album …

16 Most Requested Songs is a jazz CD featuring Louis Armstrong on trumpet and vocals. The music is medium-tempo, fast enough to dance to but not overly exciting. Louis Armstrong has a somewhat rough voice for a singer but I enjoy listening to him sing- it sounds …

Overview —“ Side I of The Who Sell Out introduces the first half of this concept record with a group of seven songs which seem to work nicely together and actually pass by quite quickly. After listening to the first two tracks, I was thinking this record was going …

If you know the song Summertime Blues originally by Eddie Cochran which you probably do. Then you might know that it is possibly one of the most covered song of all time almost every band cover their own version of it wheter it be country,rock or even by Progressive …